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Nero Spring 1993

New England Regional Office

• Pawtucket decides to close Slater Park Zoo
• Baer joins task force on Hunting Safety
• Green Mountain Dog Race Track to close
• Thank you!
• Opposition causes withdrawal of dog track proposal
• Certificate of Appreciation give to Mary Mushinsky
• Director's Comment (Arnold Baer)
• Around the Region
• Aqua Circus emphasizes environmental awareness

Nrro Spring 1993

Northern Rockies Regional Office

• Idaho "Collector" case successfully resolved
• Abandoned dogs helped by teamwork
• Dangerous fencing removed at horse range
• Vocal hero: adopted puppy saves life
• The focus is on felines: 1993 is the "Year of the Cat"
• Seven ways you can celebrate cats
• Montana cruelty case involves hundreds of animals
• Director's Comment (Dave Pauli)

Scro Spring 1993

South Central Regional Office

• Changes needed in famous pony auction
• Unwanted millions remembered
• Tennessee dog breeder told to clean things up
• Investigators trained to spot cruelty to horses
• Director's Comment (Jim Tedford)
• Around the Region
• County fair's novelty act should take a nosedive
• Seven ways you can celebrate cats

Wcro Spring 1993

West Coast Regional Office

• WCRO answers desperate calls from Hawaii, Guam
• Don't shoot coots, HSUS tells Oxnard
• Billboard: spay or neuter pets
• Dogfighters beware: group is on the watch
• National sponsors proclaim 1993 "The Year of the Cat"
• HSUS Shelter-Evaluation Team lends expertise in California
• Director's Comment (Charlene Drennon)
• Phyllis Wright: tireless and forceful advocate for animals
• Following HSUS model, San Francisco bans animal sacrifice

Tracks

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

Own a cat with Socks appeal?; Compuserve at your service; Sentinel helps you guard your pets; A beautiful offer benefits the HSUS; Shop "Smart" at PETsMART

Leave The Wolves Alone!, Paul G. Irwin

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

Wolf control is not needed in Alaska

Division Report

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

Adopt-A-Teacher (NAHEE)

Up Front

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

New day for wild horses; What's wrong with this picture?; HSUS Position Statement on elementary education materials distributed by the Department of Health and Human Services; Wanted: Better USDA reporting

An Environmental Agenda For The 1990s, Bruce Babbitt J.D.

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

In December, President-Elect Bill Clinton named the Hon. Bruce Babbitt, J.D., former governor of Arizona, as his secretary of the interior. The HSUS was pleased to welcome Governor Babbitt, most recently president of the League of Conservation Voters, to our national conference, in Boulder, Colorado, in October. In his keynote address, adapted here, Governor Babbitt discusses the environmental community's new awareness of the goals it shares with The HSUS and others in animal protection.

Federal Report

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

New Congress, new hopes for success

The Truth Behind "A Hen's Life", Melanie Adcock D.V.M.

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

No abstract provided.

Demystifying Cats, Marc Paulhus

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

No abstract provided.

Humane Society International

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

Prisoners of War (HSI Indonesia); Boycott announced (HSI Taiwan); Hans-Jürgen Weichert; Progress to the South (HSI Colombia); Hoyt calls for Norway boycott (HSI Europe)

Untangling The Web, Randall Lockwood Ph.D.

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

Law-enforcement officials turn to The HSUS

Hsus News Volume 38, Number 02

HSUS News 1989-92

• Leave the wolves alone! Wolf control is not needed in Alaska (Paul G. Irwin)
• Own a cat with socks appeal?
• Compuserve at your service
• Sentinel helps you guard your pets
• A beautiful offer benefits the HSUS
• Shop "Smart" at PETsMART
• NAHEE Adopt-a-Teacher
• New day for wild horses: immunocontraception project begins in Nevada (Allen T. Rutberg, Ph.D.)
• What's wrong with this picture? Government lab-animal poster concerns HSUS (Willow Ann Soltow)
• HSUS position statement on elementary education materials distributed by the Department of Health and Human Services
• Wanted: better USDA reporting -- HSUS seeks more information on lab-animal use
• The truth behind …

Developing A Successful Riparian-Wetland Grazing Management Plan For The Upper Ruby River Cattle And Horse Allotment In Southwestern Montana, Paul Hansen

Ecological Impacts of Animal Agriculture Collection

No abstract provided.

Slaughter On The High Seas

Close Up Reports

No abstract provided.

Animal Welfare And Individual Characteristics: A Conversation Against Speciesism, Marc Bekoff, Lori Gruen

Animal Welfare Collection

It seems impossible for a human being not to have some point of view concerning nonhuman animal (hereafter animal) welfare. Many people make decisions about how humans are permitted to treat animals using speciesist criteria, basing their decisions on an individual's species membership rather than on that animal's individual characteristics. Although speciesism provides a convenient way for making difficult decisions about who should be used in different types of research, we argue that such decisions should rely on an analysis of individual characteristics and should not be based merely on species membership. We do not argue that the concept of …

Counting In Chimpanzees: Nonhuman Principles And Emergent Properties Of Number, Sarah T. Boysen

Numeracy Collection

No abstract provided.

Assessing Animal Well-Being: Common Sense, Uncommon Science, David Fraser

Assessment of Animal Welfare Collection

The scientific assessment of the well-being of an animal involves finding indicators of three broad criteria: 1) a high level of biological functioning; 2) freedom from suffering in the sense of prolonged fear, pain, and other negative experiences; and 3) positive experiences such as comfort and contentment. The tools available to assess animal wellbeing include a mixture of common sense and cutting-edge science. Measures of animal productivity can help to assess an animal’s level of biological functioning, but they need to be used with care. Among veterinary approaches, pathology detects breakdown in biological functioning, while epidemiology identifies the circumstances under …

Animal Rights: The Frontiers Of Compassion, Henry Spira

Articles

No abstract provided.

Interview: Henry Spira, Foundation For Biomedical Research

Interviews

No abstract provided.

Alternatives In The 90'S: What's Next?, Henry Spira

Conference Presentations

The 80's was a decade of remarkable and innovative research and development of alternatives. We see the 90’s as the decade of validation and implementation.

From an activist's perspective, the 80's was very encouraging,-- alternatives gained acceptance, legitimacy and credibility within the toxicology, corporate and regulatory communities. And The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) at Johns Hopkins University played a significant role in making this acceptance possible.

But these new technologies have yet to realize their full potential; the focus to date has been on development more than on bringing these technologies into routine usage. And the public, …

Tackling The Titans, Erik Marcus

Profiles

The successful strategy of animal-rights activist Henry Spira.

A Reminder About What We've Achieved In Two Decades, Animal Rights International

Farm Animal Campaign

No abstract provided.

The Value And Utility Of Animals In Research, Andrew N. Rowan, Joan C. Weer

Validation of Animal Experimentation Collection

The Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, Center for Animals and Public Policy, sponsored an invitational seminar, The Value and Utility of Animals in Research, on October 14, 1993, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. This seminar was the second in a series of three organized by the Center for Animals and Public Policy and supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts to deal with issues relating to the use of animals in research. The first seminar, Biology Education and Animals: Opportunities and Issues, was held in the spring of 1993. The third meeting, at the National Press Club …

Shackle & Hoist: The Power Of Alternatives, Henry Spira

Articles

Few things in the decades-old horror show of farm animal-suffering have bothered all of us quite so much as shackling and hoisting. It should come as a relief to animal protectionists that the curtain is finally beginning to fall on the last grisly scenes of this archaic practice.

While our ideal remains the non-violent dinner table, the reality is that eating habits lend to change slowly. In terms of the "three Rs" this means that adopting a meatless diet for ethical reasons (Replacement) remains our long-term goal. In the short term our best bet is to also focus on eating …

Refinements In Rabbit Husbandry, The Bvaawf/Frame/Rspca/Ufaw Joint Working Group On Refinement

Breeding of Laboratory Research Animals Collection

The aims of this report are to identify the needs of domesticated rabbits and to present information on ways in which the current systems of housing rabbits can be improved for the benefit of all concerned: the animal, the scientist, the animal technician and the breeder.

In recent years an increasing number of establishments have changed from standard caging to group housing systems, despite the traditionally-held view that mature rabbits cannot be housed together. In this report group housing in floor pens is discussed in detail (Section 2), with both the advantages and disadvantages of this system presented. It is …

Farewell, Phyllis Wright, Paul G. Irwin

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

No animal advocate was more dedicated or devoted

Tracks

Serial - HSUS News 1989-93 (indiv. artcls)

HSUS aces one for the animals; 1993 is "The Year of the Cat"; Branch receives alternatives award